Chancellor John Healey Brands Nigel Farage 'Liz Truss With A Bitcoin Account'

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Nigel Farage looks on as Liz Truss poses for a selfie at the launch of Popular Conservatism last year. John Healey dubbed Nigel Farage " Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account" as he launched a bitter attack on the Reform UK leader. The chancellor went on the attack as he told the Labour conference in Liverpool that the government has "a moral duty" to bring down the welfare bill.

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• He also insisted he will stick to his predecessor Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules to keep control of public spending ahead of his first Budget on October 28.
• He accused the last Tory government of presiding over years of "flatlining" economic growth and condemned Liz Truss's disastrous mini-Budget, which sent mortgage rates soaring.
• Healey added: "Nigel Farage – he wants you to think he's a man of the people but when it comes to the economy he's Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account." That appeared to be a clear reference to the £5 million...

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"Through the core of the Budget I deliver a month today will be fiscal discipline, to give families and businesses a bit of breathing space, to drive good growth and jobs in more places and to write a new chapter of hope for Britain's future," Healey said.